My Pilgrim Way
Puritan Board Freshman
I agree and all that have read this account without what modern-day scientists say, believed the account as it's recorded. God could have easily said the earth stood still. He did not. He could have said the earth has a course, but He said the sun does over and over.I’d have thought that the request to “show” how the passage can be taken phenomenologically, would be understood to mean exegete the passage according to sound hermeneutical principles. It’s a historical narrative; what place is there in a historical narrative for phenomenological language? Is there any other historical narrative in the Bible where this occurs? Gordon Fee says of historical narratives, “Narratives record what happened.” Where is the place in a biblical narrative for the insertion of an observation based on the narrator’s mistaken interpretation of what he saw?
We are to come to God as little children by faith. Even the least learned child of God can believe the scriptures by faith without having a PhD in science.
Also, it was a miracle performed by God. Are we to also discount other miracles such as turning water into wine, healing the withered hand, etc? Where does it stop?